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Given that he sings Feel at every opportunity you'd think he'd know the feckin words by now.... :rolleyes: :lol:
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I may be wrong about Feel! I could be putting one and one together and coming up with three ... so don't take my word.

 

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Robbie Williams: The ego has flown

The Northern Advocate

5th October 2010

 

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My life has finally fallen into place. Everything is going brilliantly personally and professionally, I never thought this would happen. It appears by the box set and the CDs and all my memories and wrinkles that I've been and done an awful lot in 20 years. I haven't really given myself permission to pat myself on the back and go: "Well done". But I'm just happy with what's going on in my life now. I've got married, I'm reunited with the guys (from Take That) it seems that there are some exciting things happening and other chapters are blossoming in my life.

 

Mine is a career that happened by chance. I've been a singer for 20 years. Amazing. The irony is all I ever wanted to be as a kid was an actor. Something went very wrong or very right. I did loads of amateur operatic society stuff. I was the Artful Dodger in Oliver Twist and I was one of the king's sons in the King And I and the fiddler in Fiddler On The Roof . One night when I was 13, while we were watching Tight Fit on Top of the Pops my mum said: "Do you want to do that when you're older?", I grimaced at the thought. But then I messed up my GCSEs, my mum heard on Signal Radio of this audition to be in a British version of New Kids On The Block.

 

I had some photos taken, put together a CV, lied on it of course and the timing was impeccable so that's how it started.

 

At 16 my greatest talent was for showing off ... Back then I was this kid with ambition, a dream, a desire and a real appetite for bettering myself in whatever way that may be. I wasn't very academic at all. The highest mark I got in my GCSEs was a D. I was good at showing off and I needed to turn that into a profession.

 

My biggest regret in 20 years is saying: 'I'm rich beyond my wildest dreams" when I signed my record contract with EMI. That was just embarrassing. I was jet-lagged coming from Los Angeles, there were loads of people and a big contract to be signed, I kind of felt dwarfed by it. How do you perform like you're worth that much? It felt like a lottery win. Meant to quote Viv Nicholson (Littlewoods Pools winner) and say: "I'm going to spend, spend, spend." But in my jet-lagged delirium it came out as I'm rich beyond my wildest dreams.

 

Angels is the song that defines me. It's my greatest achievement so far. I do love that song. It touches people. It's played at births, deaths and marriages and that's very, very special. It's a hatch, a match, dispatch song and my biggest bona fide gold plated biggest hit. I'm still searching for, you know, the one that transcends everything and hits people's hearts, I'm still searching for another one like that.

 

There is a track called Coffee, Tea and Sympathy that I'm very proud of on my B-sides and rarities compilation. It should of made it on to one of the albums but Guy Chambers didn't like it, at that time I thought he owned music.

 

Life has definitely turned a corner for me. There have been downs - all well-documented - there has been rehab, a lot of issues. But at 36, my life is changing for the good. With a bit more maturity and a bit more love for myself, I recognise that and I'm getting there, it's happening but slowly, slowly catch a monkey.

 

I'm proud to say Robbie Williams now has a few grey hairs. Maturity-wise I feel about 20, but I've definitely been marked by the old passage of time. Up until my late-20s I was constantly dying my hair all different colours and then at 35, 36, I noticed a couple of grey hairs and you know what, I liked it. I like looking at the mirror and seeing those hairs on my head, it's a testament to my time on the planet. I think ultimately I'm just glad to be growing up at last.

 

source: northernadvocate.co.nz via TRWS

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Just saw this. Some interesting points. I am finding myself getting more and more annoyed re- Guy Chambers recently. Rob seems to be speaking about it more now than in all those years after which is odd tbh seeing as they made up. It's not like Guy said something recently in an interview that would have annoyed him is there? It is outrageous that Guy didnt want Coffee, Team & Sympathy on Escapology. Who did he think he was? That is one of Rob's best ever songs and it deserved to be heard by the wider public. To think we nearly didnt have Come Undone due to that same arrogance of Guy. I sincerely hope Guy has changed in these years and his distinct lack of similar success without Rob has brought him back down to reality a bit. I would like them to work together again unless of course Chambers would still dismiss any songs he did not write and was still on an ego trip. :rolleyes:
Just saw this. Some interesting points. I am finding myself getting more and more annoyed re- Guy Chambers recently. Rob seems to be speaking about it more now than in all those years after which is odd tbh seeing as they made up. It's not like Guy said something recently in an interview that would have annoyed him is there? It is outrageous that Guy didnt want Coffee, Team & Sympathy on Escapology. Who did he think he was? That is one of Rob's best ever songs and it deserved to be heard by the wider public. To think we nearly didnt have Come Undone due to that same arrogance of Guy. I sincerely hope Guy has changed in these years and his distinct lack of similar success without Rob has brought him back down to reality a bit. I would like them to work together again unless of course Chambers would still dismiss any songs he did not write and was still on an ego trip. :rolleyes:

 

 

Have you seen Guy's recent release <_< with Nadine Coyle, noooooooooooooooooooot good !!!

 

I would like to see Robbie & Guy do something together again because they did write some fantastic songs but I doubt it will be any day soon

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Have you seen Guy's recent release <_< with Nadine Coyle, noooooooooooooooooooot good !!!

 

I would like to see Robbie & Guy do something together again because they did write some fantastic songs but I doubt it will be any day soon

 

 

I agree - the new song with Nadine is not good at all. He had that #1 with Brian McFadden after he left Westlife - it was a decent enough tune. One of those forgotten #1's.

 

One of the other new songs - Long Walk Home is now up on youtube - really like this one. Fantastic lyrics and he is sounding great :D Expand Info section for a download link.

 

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Cover of the DVD of the music vids :D

http://images.play.com/covers/16101730x.jpg

 

 

Also vid of all the different versions from EMI Germany. :D

 

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Dogs and Birds is a really good tune - as is Email. But Heart and I is getting better with each listen. The Itunes HQ version is fantastic. It should be released as a single outside the UK/Ireland at least.
How come people have already got the album

 

Mine has only just been dispatched :unsure:

 

Outside the UK it goes out earlier Sparkle, ;)

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Rob sang Rock DJ on SCD this evening and I missed it :o Forgot he was on :angry: :angry: No doubt it will be on youtube shortly but I wanted to have it to add to my DVD - and SCD is never repeated. ^_^
Rob sang Rock DJ on SCD this evening and I missed it :o Forgot he was on :angry: :angry: No doubt it will be on youtube shortly but I wanted to have it to add to my DVD - and SCD is never repeated. ^_^

 

 

How could you De Niro...Robbie was fab , really rocked it up & did the Rudebox bit at the end...I am very proud of him ....he did run out a bit of breath now & then but it mattered litlle with the performance that he gave...I have not seen him that lively in a long time :lol:

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How could you De Niro...Robbie was fab , really rocked it up & did the Rudebox bit at the end...I am very proud of him ....he did run out a bit of breath now & then but it mattered litlle with the performance that he gave...I have not seen him that lively in a long time :lol:

 

 

Luckily I had my NTL+ box upstairs set on BBC by mistake and had forgotten to turn it off last night so I just had to rewind it and saw Rock DJ. Fan-bloody-tastic. I didnt think I'd ever see him perform like that again - it was like a recreation of the video itself minus the stripping and throwing flesh :P It was so much fun to watch him do those hilarious dance moves and take the p*** out of himself. That's what I missed with the RKTVS promo - he seems much more himself this year. Even compared to his excellent but slightly stiff BRITS performance - the nerves are quickly going and he looks to be enjoying himself much more. The contrast between that and Shame last week is amazing really - shows his diversity and it was very enjoyable. So glad he didnt sing Feel. Where did that rumor come from? Maybe he sang it as well to warm up? He had the crowd going mad with Rock DJ though - the energy so fantastic. :dance:

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Luckily I had my NTL+ box upstairs set on BBC by mistake and had forgotten to turn it off last night so I just had to rewind it and saw Rock DJ. Fan-bloody-tastic. I didnt think I'd ever see him perform like that again - it was like a recreation of the video itself minus the stripping and throwing flesh :P It was so much fun to watch him do those hilarious dance moves and take the p*** out of himself. That's what I missed with the RKTVS promo - he seems much more himself this year. Even compared to his excellent but slightly stiff BRITS performance - the nerves are quickly going and he looks to be enjoying himself much more. The contrast between that and Shame last week is amazing really - shows his diversity and it was very enjoyable. So glad he didnt sing Feel. Where did that rumor come from? Maybe he sang it as well to warm up? He had the crowd going mad with Rock DJ though - the energy so fantastic. :dance:

 

 

ew I'm so not buying this. Maybe if he wasn't being paid x amount of money to be with Take That again (puke), then I wouldn't actually mind.
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